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The windfall from Facebook’s public offering may prompt some employees to leave, in what could be one of company’s lasting legacies — a new generation of tech tycoons looking to create or invest in, well, the next Facebook.
The medical debt-collection company, the subjection of an investigation by the Minnesota attorney general into its practices, announced higher quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
In expressing his support for same-sex marriage, which remains a controversial issue, President Obama has clearly come to recognize that the forces of history appear to be changing.
The rules are designed to tackle origination fees, which vary widely depending on the amount of a loan.
In confronting Jewish laws that forbid airing allegations against fellow Jews or turning them in to the police, families of ultra-Orthodox victims who have been molested face intimidation by their communities.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 2012, covering May 10, 2012.
Jack White
Adele
Lionel Richie
One Direction
Lee Brice
2012Horst Faas, German photographer and journalist (born 1933)[†]
Horst Faas was a German photo-journalist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He is best known for his images of the Vietnam War.
2012Carroll Shelby, American race car driver and designer (born 1923)[†]
Carroll Hall Shelby was an American automotive designer, racing driver, and entrepreneur.
2012Gunnar Sønsteby, Norwegian captain and author (born 1918)[†]
Gunnar Fridtjof Thurmann Sønsteby DSO was a member of the Norwegian resistance movement during the German occupation of Norway in World War II. Known by the nickname "Kjakan" and as "Agent No. 24", he was the most highly decorated citizen in Norway, including being the only person to have been awarded the War Cross with three swords, Norway's highest military decoration.
2012The Damascus bombings are carried out using a pair of car bombs detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria, killing 55 people.[†]
The 10 May 2012 Damascus bombings were carried out using a pair of car bombs allegedly detonated by suicide bombers outside a military intelligence complex in Damascus, Syria. Combined, the perpetrators detonated more than 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of explosives, tearing the facade off of a 10-story building. With 55 people confirmed dead and almost 400 others injured, the attack was the deadliest bombing until then in the Syrian Civil War, though later outpaced by other events.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]